How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?

[waringpongo]

Exactly. You can't compare like for like. The difference is the Senedd is looking at saving lives and the Tories are driven by greed.

[algy]

Exactly. You can't compare like for like. The difference is the Senedd is looking at saving lives and the Tories are driven by greed.

I agree completely.

[eamonn]

In the press conference, Gerrard said (without a glimmer of irony) that he hopes "we can continue to post some positive results for our supporters."

lolz

He worked on captions and headlines during work-experience at the Liverpool Echo in 1995.

[Risso]

Gerrard: "we've got lots of tests before the match and anything can happen."

Brilliant for the supporters that, cheers Premier League. C***s.

[waringpongo]

Exactly. You can't compare like for like. The difference is the Senedd is looking at saving lives and the Tories are driven by greed.

I agree completely.

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[Richard E]

Exactly. You can't compare like for like. The difference is the Senedd is looking at saving lives and the Tories are driven by greed.

That's over-simplistic and Manichean. The world is not that binary. If it was the case then the Tories wouldn't have imposed lockdowns last year which literally made it illegal to leave your house unless you could show a good reason, shutting down vast swathes of the economy and resulting in vast injections of public funds like the furlough scheme. 

[paul_e]

Gerrard: "we've got lots of tests before the match and anything can happen."

Brilliant for the supporters that, cheers Premier League. C***s.

The 1 big positive here is that the change to 7 days means every player who was positive by Burnley is now available again (probably). If we've managed to avoid any new infections that'll mean a mostly full squad to pick from.

[Nii Lamptey]

Gerrard: "we've got lots of tests before the match and anything can happen."

Brilliant for the supporters that, cheers Premier League. C***s.

The 1 big positive here is that the change to 7 days means every player who was positive by Burnley is now available again (probably). If we've managed to avoid any new infections that'll mean a mostly full squad to pick from.

Is it a positive though? If the players' contracted Covid and fell ill from it (rather than just being asymptomatic), are they really going to be available and able to hit the ground running for 90mins against a side who are reigning European Champions in just a 7 day turnaround?

I very much doubt it, and along with the fact of how quickly the games come along over xmas break, it's a fucking huge risk to the players' health surely?!

[Nii Lamptey]

Gerrard: "we've got lots of tests before the match and anything can happen."

Brilliant for the supporters that, cheers Premier League. C***s.

The 1 big positive here is that the change to 7 days means every player who was positive by Burnley is now available again (probably). If we've managed to avoid any new infections that'll mean a mostly full squad to pick from.

Is it a positive though? If the players' contracted Covid and fell ill from it (rather than just being asymptomatic), are they really going to be available and able to hit the ground running for 90mins against a side who are reigning European Champions in just a 7 day turnaround?

I very much doubt it, and along with the fact of how quickly the games come along over xmas break, it's a fucking huge risk to the players' health surely?!

[paul_e]

Gerrard: "we've got lots of tests before the match and anything can happen."

Brilliant for the supporters that, cheers Premier League. C***s.

The 1 big positive here is that the change to 7 days means every player who was positive by Burnley is now available again (probably). If we've managed to avoid any new infections that'll mean a mostly full squad to pick from.

Is it a positive though? If the players' contracted Covid and fell ill from it (rather than just being asymptomatic), are they really going to be available and able to hit the ground running for 90mins against a side who are reigning European Champions in just a 7 day turnaround?

I very much doubt it, and along with the fact of how quickly the games come along over xmas break, it's a fucking huge risk to the players' health surely?!

it's positive compared to having to play them anyway but with a bits and pieces side. You're also assuming that the players were symptomatic, given we planned to play the game until the morning I'd suggest the results came as a bit of a surprise so they've probably all been twiddling their thumbs at home waiting to get back to training.

[Sexual Ealing]

Gerrard suggested that there were a couple of new positives this morning, as well as some players returning.

[OCD]

Well, by Sunday it will have been 12 days since the Norwich game and 8 days since the Burnley non-game. Unless of them have really copped it, all those should be back and it's any other positives that we could lose. Out of the Norwich absentees it was really only Sanson that would have been a candidate for the first 11.

[Clark W Griswold]

Depends how bad the symptoms are, if they’ve had it like I have (still recovering 3 weeks on) they won’t be running around for a while.

[Ads]

Anybody out from Saturday will be able to play if they're negative on Crhostmas Day and Boxing Day for an LFT.

[N'ZMAV]

Anybody out from Saturday will be able to play if they're negative on Crhostmas Day and Boxing Day for an LFT.

if vaccinated?